Ragnarok DS

Well, some games just take too long to beat before reviewing them completely, so in an attempt to get reviews to all of you faithful readers, I'll start reviewing games after getting somewhat into the game.

Ragnarok on the DS. Apparently this is a huge pc game, an mmo at that, that tons of people play, younger teens it seems.

It's slated as a single player mmo-rpg on the ds, if that makes sense, the basic idea is you have a very very modifiable character, with 17 classes to pick from. The classes are of standard fare, ranging from soldier to mage to thief.

The storyline somewhat standard for the jrpg as well. A girl and some guy are with an adventurer, and they are attacked, the girl has some special power, and she runs into you, a boy with a sick mom? And the two of you start to fight evil, oh and she has amnesia as well, but isn't too concerned about finding out who she is, but more of commenting on your attitude to others. Needless to say your character is sort of a jerk to people.

At any rate, the storyline is somewhat forgetful, and you'll quickly become annoyed at the fact that you have to click the touchscreen to advance every single line of dialogue, an annoying but ignorable element.

The strongest part of the game are the controls. There are two kinds of rpgs in this world, some have you select attacks and advance slowly, or more commonly known as turn-based fighting, the other is a sort of "click on what you want to fight, once" and the character does the rest. Ragnarok allows you to simply click on the enemy, and you attack it until its dead. For those of you video game savvy, Diablo or Tales of Symphonia style.

You level up quickly and you don't constantly have to stop to readjust skill points, you can just do them whenever you start to feel the game is difficult, a nice gameplay element not often used.

The music is dreadful, but hey, its a DS game, haha. You'll hear the same music for a dungeon, every dungeon. The same music for towns, every town. The same music for forests, every... you get the idea.

Overall, if you have a DS for rpgs, and let's face it, if you're over 16 and you have a DS, chances are it's for rpgs, this one fits nicely within the ranks. It's not the annoying Final Fantasy titles (look I'm sorry, I played through them once, I hate having to grind again, sorry), and it's not a kids title (although making hooker-looking girls in "my fashion designer" does have some appeal).

Since it's a DS game, and the first one I've reviewed for my own blog, you can't exactly rent them easily, but if you like rpgs, or are a fan of Ragnarok on the pc, get this and chances are you won't be disappointed.